Hello, This is the second attempt to post my question. Sorry about that. I try to connect to a PDA over USB and it just does not work. I am using Suse 8.2 with a 2.4.21 Kernel. What I did so far: I changed the necessary settings in /etc/sysconfig/hotplug. I put CDCEther and acm on the blacklist in /etc/hotplug/blacklist. I created a USB network device with Yast which appears as eth-usb. There is a ifcfg-eth-usb in /etc/sysconfig/network. In /etc/hotplug/usb.handmap, I include the following passage so that hotplug knows about which driver belongs to a USB gadged that comes in with 04dd/9031: # Sharp Zaurus usbnet 0x0003 0x04dd 0x9031 0x0000 0x0000 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x02 0x06 0x00 0x00000000 Finally, I tried to insert into /etc/modules.conf alias eth-usb usbnet ...but I do not think that this helped. Now what happens is this: The hotplug service realizes that there is a new gadget attached. usbnet is loaded. Hotplug tries to fuss around with acm but seems to realize that it is blacklisted. However, I do not get a usb network device! At least, this is my interpretation of the following /var/log/messages section: Aug 9 18:49:04 melissandra kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-2, assigned address 9 Aug 9 18:49:04 melissandra kernel: usb.c: USB device 9 (vend/prod 0x4dd/0x9031) is not claimed by any active driver. Aug 9 18:49:04 melissandra /sbin/hotplug[4325]: /sbin/hotplug usb Aug 9 18:49:04 melissandra /sbin/hotplug[4325]: HOME=/ Aug 9 18:49:04 melissandra /sbin/hotplug[4325]: PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin Aug 9 18:49:04 melissandra /sbin/hotplug[4325]: ACTION=add Aug 9 18:49:04 melissandra /sbin/hotplug[4325]: INTERFACE= Aug 9 18:49:04 melissandra /sbin/hotplug[4325]: DEVFS=/proc/bus/usb Aug 9 18:49:04 melissandra /sbin/hotplug[4325]: DEVICE=/proc/bus/usb/002/009 Aug 9 18:49:04 melissandra /sbin/hotplug[4325]: PRODUCT=4dd/9031/0 Aug 9 18:49:04 melissandra /sbin/hotplug[4325]: TYPE=2/0/0 Aug 9 18:49:04 melissandra /sbin/hotplug[4325]: LOCAL_USBLOCK usblock-1060447744-_proc_bus_usb_002_009.lock sleeps 3 Aug 9 18:49:07 melissandra /sbin/hotplug[4325]: invoke /etc/hotplug/usb.agent Aug 9 18:49:07 melissandra /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[4341]: Setup usbnet from usb.handmap for USB product 4dd/9031/0 Aug 9 18:49:07 melissandra /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[4341]: BeepInfo: TYPE=usb ACTION=add DRIVERS=usbnet DEVICE=/proc/bus/usb/002/009 Aug 9 18:49:07 melissandra /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[4341]: Setup acm from modules.usbmap for USB product 4dd/9031/0 Aug 9 18:49:07 melissandra /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[4341]: ... blacklisted module: acm Aug 9 18:49:07 melissandra /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[4341]: BeepInfo: TYPE=usb ACTION=add DRIVERS=acm DEVICE=/proc/bus/usb/002/009 Aug 9 18:49:07 melissandra /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[4341]: writing usb-2-9 to /var/run/hotplug/net Aug 9 18:49:07 melissandra /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[4341]: Wrote remover script '/var/run/hotplug/usb-remover-%4dd%9031%0%2%0%0' with following content: Aug 9 18:49:07 melissandra /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[4341]: remover script: COUNT=1 Aug 9 18:49:07 melissandra /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[4341]: remover script: echo usb-2-9 > /var/run/hotplug/net Aug 9 18:49:07 melissandra /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[4341]: remover script: test $COUNT -gt 1 && exit Does anyone know what is missing? In theory, when I plug the PDA into the USB I should receive a usb0 network device. Any help is welcome :-) tia, einar
